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The Daily F Bomb, Wednesday 3/5/14

Interrogatories

When was the last time you went to the dentist? How was it?

What is your favorite branch of science?

What critically acclaimed movie did you hate?

The Twitter Emitter

On This Day

In 1616, the Catholic Church banned Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. No science allowed!

In 1623, the first Colonial alcohol temperance law was enacted in Virginia.

In 1624, the upper class was exempted from whipping by legislators in Virginia. I think that law is still in effect.

In 1770, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers opened fire on a crowd of colonists who were taunting them, killing five, not giving them a chance to taunt them a second time.

In 1845, Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the western U.S. The Camel Corps didn’t work out, due to the animals scaring the horses and also to their nasty dispositions (kind of like working with a Republican Congress now).

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being withdrawn from banks.

In 1933, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

In 1946, Winston Churchill used the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

In 1982, the Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus. It lasted 57 minutes, longer than the expected 32.

In 2004, Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government after she had sold off her Imclone Systems Inc. stock right before the price took a major dive. If she were a man she probably would have gotten a slap on the hand.

Born on This Day

1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)

1658 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)

1637 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch landscape painter and inventor (d. 1712)

1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)

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1743 – Jean-Simon Berthélémy, French history painter (d. 1811)

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1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)

1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1870)

1829 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (d. 1905)

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1830 – August Friedrich Siegert, German genre painter (d. 1883)

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1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)

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1870 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)

1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Russian born Marxist revolutionary (d. 1919)

1894 – Henry Daniell, English actor (d. 1963)

1908 – Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975

1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)

1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1967)

1933 – Tommy Tucker, American rhythm and blues singer and pianist (d. 1982)

1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor

1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress

1947 – Tom Russell, American singer/songwriter

1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer

1952 – Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)

1956 – Teena Marie, American singer (d. 2010)

1957 – Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall and Von Südenfed)

1962 – Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)

1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian

1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Died on This Day

1534 – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)

1592 – Michiel Coxie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)

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1622 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)

1671 – Cornelis van der Schalcke, Dutch landscape painter (b. 1611)

1695 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)

1720 – Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish painter (b. 1657)

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1755 – Pier-Leone Ghezzi, Italian painter and caricaturist (possibly the first professional one) (b. 1674)

1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)

1860 – Alfred de Dreux, French painter (b. 1810)

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1876 – Marie d’Agoult, [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt’s children (b. 1905)

1880 – Edouard Henri Girardet, Swiss painter and engraver (b. 1819)

1895 – Charles Édouard Edmond Delort, French painter  (b. 1841)

1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)

1967 – Mischa Auer, Russian-born American actor (b. 1905)

1980 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)

1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)

1984 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)

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1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)

1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)

Today is

Multiple Personality Day

National Cheese Doodle Day

Namesake Day

Saint Piran’s Day

8 hour day (Australia’s Labor Day)

Dr. Doolittle Day

Mother – in – Law Day

Healing From the Inside Out Day


17 comments

  1. Gee

    When was the last time you went to the dentist? How was it?

    What is your favorite branch of science?

    What critically acclaimed movie did you hate?

    Last year some time.  It wasn’t bad.  I go fairly often so it’s usually just a cleaning.  I hate getting x-rayed, though.

    Geology.

    Not sure how critically acclaimed these were, but they were popular:  Forrest Gump and Moulin Rouge.

  2. Floja Roja

    I am scheduled to see the dentist later this month, same day as my orthodontist appointment. Deep cleaning and x-rays. Last dentist visit was when I (finally) had out my wisdom teeth and subsequent complications. That was fun!

    My favorite branch of science is hard to figure. I am interested in science generally, less so specifically. I really like astronomy a lot. I never got into science too deeply as a kid, because the teaching of it was clearly designed to appeal to boys only, and the teachers made it quite clear that girls weren’t really welcome.

    Forrest Gump. ’nuff said.

  3. bubbanomics

    When was the last time you went to the dentist? How was it?

    month ago.  it was fine.  I’m pretty regular about it.

    What is your favorite branch of science?

    all of ’em.  right now, biology.

    What critically acclaimed movie did you hate?

    actually i don’t know.  i sure hate some movies, but i’m not sure of their critical acclaim.

  4. Just STFU, McCain:

       Remember when America liked John McCain’s foreign policy prescriptions so much that we didn’t elect him President?

       – Firestarter in Chief (@docrocktex26) March 4, 2014

    I am really sick of the people who are interviewing him as though his opinion matters one whit.

    Ha Ha! I love TBogg “RT reporting that Russian troops are giving Ukrainians puppies and foot massages. Developing…”

    There is so much truth in this I want to weep.

       The biggest difference between the left and the right? When Bush was president, nobody was preaching about shooting or lynching him.

       – David Lubar (@davidlubar) March 4, 2014

    The pundits during the shutdown last fall were saying that Obama should be more like Bill Clinton who met with congressional leaders and forged a deal. They are saying he should be more like Reagan for some insane reason. But I looked at this picture last night and, after it made me tear up, I realized that THIS is what Barack Obama has done. He has taken on all this hell from the right so that that little boy can grow up not knowing that there was a time when black people simply did not become president.

    No president since Lincoln has been as vilified and delegitimized and called names and been the object of the kind of treasonous language that President Obama has. And the right can say “oh, it’s not about his race!” and they will be lying through their teeth. It is EXACTLY about his race because they know that their base is fueled by hatred.



    :::rant over:::

    Now I will moooove on. 🙂

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